When one applies to business school they typically worry about whether they have enough work experience under their belt, or whether they can compete with Ivy League graduates and 4.0 GPAs. But statistics show that since the financial crisis MBA programs are no longer looking for cookie cutter students. “Diversity” is the name of…
Another US News Top Ten!
US News is at it again! The magazine’s newest top ten list is the top 10 Business Schools That Receive the Most Full-Time Applications. Not surprisingly, almost all the top 10 programs listed in US News’s rankings of the best business schools were also on the list of the top 10 business schools that received…
Forbes Announces Top Ten Business Schools
Forbes has just released its list of the top business schools in America. The Forbes’ ranking methodology is based on the return on investment achieved by the class of 2006. They surveyed 16,000 alumni at over 100 schools and received feedback from 30% of those grads. They then compared the earnings of the respondents…
4th Annual AIGAC Conference: An Inspiring Way to Kick Off the New MBA Application Season
In the first week of June I had the great pleasure of getting together with colleagues from around the world for the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants’ annual conference. This year it was in Palo Alto – thanks to the conference organizers for arranging 3 days of perfect weather! Here is a summary…
Stanford Business School Opens its Doors Wider
On April 29, 2011, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business celebrated the opening of its new building, the Knight Management Center. Future applicants will be interested in how the 12.5-acre management complex reflects the business school’s new curriculum. The designers aimed to create a structure that reflects the ideals of Stanford’s new curriculum. Dean Garth Saloner…
2012 Applicants: Time to Poke the Box
I just finished Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, an ode to initiative, innovation, and overcoming fear of risk and failure. In this short book, which Godin alternately and accurately refers to as a “manifesto” and a “rant,” he motivates the reader to just do it. Get going. In Godin’s words, “I’m merely encouraging you to…
U.S. News Ranks Best EMBA Programs
U.S. News & World Report just released its annual Execute MBA rankings, which we’ve posted below. Top 10 Best Executive MBA Programs 1. University of Pennsylvania Wharton 2. Chicago Booth 3. Northwestern Kellogg 4. Duke Fuqua 5. Columbia 6. NYU Stern 6. UCLA Anderson 8. Michigan Ross 9. UC Berkeley Haas 10. UNC Kenan-Flagler You’ll…
MBAs Learn to Write Right
MBAs have long been criticized for having poor writing skills, reports a Wall Street Journal article, “Students Struggle for Words,” and according to recent test scores, that proficiency may be dropping. The article states: While MBA students’ quantitative skills are prized by employers, their writing and presentation skills have been a perennial complaint. Employers…
Stanford’s eHarmony-Style Job Search Offers Large Payoff
John Byrne offers a window into Stanford GSB‘s career services office with his article, “Creating An eHarmony Model for MBA Careers.” He starts by reminding readers that graduates from Stanford GSB report the highest median base salaries—about $120,000/year compared to Harvard and Wharton’s $110,000, Dartmouth and Kellogg’s $105,000, and Columbia’s $100,000. Furthermore, he states,…
More on Application Do’s and Don’ts
A recent blog from KT had a great summary of application do’s and don’ts following his own unsuccessful application year (he’s waitlisted still – so there is hope!). I wanted to add a few thoughts and perhaps even illuminate a point for KT and others like him whose “stats were well above median for all…
A Few of the Mostest at Accepted.com
This is the time of year to look back at the most, best, (worst), etc. I am going to stick to the positive. Top Ten Most Visited Accepted Admissions Almanac Posts of 2010: In a nutshell, rankings and application tip posts rule. (I am only listing the current tip post when last year’s tip post…
Sustainable MBAs
Thinking about a career in sustainable enterprise? Each year the Aspen Institute ranks MBA programs in their Beyond Grey Pinstripes edition on the schools’ ability to provide curriculum, research and careers while looking at the triple bottom line. This list continues to grow, but according to the 2010 rankings, candidates looking at MBA programs that…
MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) Wants
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top “dream” employers of MBA students, was looking for four specific qualities in the candidates they hired. By my calculations, McKinsey made…
Stanford GSB 2011 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
UPDATE- THE TIPS FOR STANFORD‘S 2012 MBA APPLICATION ARE NOW ONLINE- Please post questions or comments to the new post. This Stanford GSB 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. You can access the entire series at…
What MBA Programs Should You Apply To Next Season?
It’s late February, already in the ebb of the current MBA admissions season. As such, it’s the perfect time for people considering applying next season to break out of hibernation and start tackling a part of the process that is often shortchanged: school selection. In ten-plus years of MBA admissions consulting I have found that…
Financial Times Global 2010 MBA Rankings
The Financial Times published today its 2010 ranking of global MBA programs. Its ranking attempts to “assess the effect of the MBA on … subsequent career progression and salary growth.” Consequently it draws its data from the schools themselves and from surveys of graduates at least three years after earning their MBA degree. In building…
HBS Launches International Seminar Program
Following the lead of other top MBA programs, reports a recent article in The Financial Times, Harvard Business School will be expanding its international immersion programs this year by holding small, intensive seminars across the globe. According to the FT, HBS has been “slow to initiate such projects, as data from the Financial Times…
Stanford Wins First Place for Forbes’ “The Most Satisfied MBAs”
Forbes took its survey findings from “The Best Business Schools” and compiled a second rankings report: “The Most Satisfied MBAs.” Stanford won top slot for both rankings. It is #1 for providing the best return on investment for its graduates, as well as for churning out MBAs who are extremely satisfied with their current jobs…
New “No-Co-Signer” Loans Aid Foreign MBA Students
According to BusinessWeek, Chicago Booth, Northwestern University, Rochester’s Simon School, and UCLA Anderson are among the six universities and 15 graduate programs that have joined the Affiliated Loan Program for Students (ALPS), a solution to the international student loan crisis. In 2008, just as admissions season was approaching, a few major international student loan lenders…
GMAT or GRE: Which is Best for You?
Now that top b-schools (including HBS, Stanford, Wharton, and MIT Sloan, among others) are accepting either GMAT or GRE scores, MBA applicants are a bit at a loss as to which test might enhance their chances of acceptance. BusinessWeek calls the recent GMAT-GRE showdown the “business school version of the Coke-or-Pepsi debate.” Obviously choosing between…
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